Imagine if your next experiment knew the outcome of your last thousand.
At ReactWise, we’ve spent the last year focused on two things: getting the highest quality data - and enabling our algorithms to make the best use of any prior data.
In our high-throughput experimentation lab, we’ve generated thousands of high-quality datapoints across different chemistries, catalysts, and process conditions. That data became the foundation to fuel MemoryBO, our proprietary multi-task Bayesian optimization algorithm.
Traditional Bayesian optimization starts every campaign from scratch. MemoryBO doesn’t.
It learns from past experiments, transferring knowledge between related systems and intelligently warm-starting new optimizations.
The result is faster convergence, smarter exploration, and identification of high-yield regions that standard BO would take much longer to find.
The plot below shows it in action during optimization of an amide coupling reaction - a clear performance boost over traditional BO, achieving results that would otherwise remain undiscovered. The Y-axis represents regret - the distance to the best achievable value, approximated by the top experimental outcome.
We’re pushing towards a future where every experiment counts twice: once for its immediate outcome, and once for what it teaches the next optimization.
This is how chemistry learns from itself.